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> few months ago This was 2 years and a few months ago, at least the article is. > wouldn't pay them and store this food In the article the plant pictured be

> few months ago This was 2 years and a few months ago, at least the article is. > wouldn't pay them and store this food In the article the plant pictured being plowed over is an eggplant, which has a storage life of about a week if stored properly. How exactly can we store this food for a rainy day when it spoils so quickly? Grains can be stored for long durations, but fresh fruit and vegetables cannot be stored to save for much longer than a few weeks. Then you’re also ignoring the costs. If they won’t be able to sell some crop, why keep dumping time and materials into it? You’re just exacerbating your losses.

ClumsyPilot 4y ago
You can make eggplant flour, canned, salted and pickled vegetables, like this is something our ancestors worked out hundreds of years ago. Anyway you dont need to preserve everything, the point is the bigger picture. Thats exactly the point of my critique that for the individual farmer it doesn't make sence to invest so much effort, but as a society wouldn't it be nice of we didn't waste what we had, we'd have something to fall back on.
- tekknik 4y ago
  > You can make eggplant flour, canned, salted and pickled vegetables. Farmers grow food, they don’t process it outside what a combine does. This further increases costs as now you need mass grinders, canners, and pickling machines. > Thats exactly the point of my critique that for the individual farmer it doesn't make sence to invest so much effort, but as a society wouldn't it be nice of we didn't waste what we had, we'd have something to fall back on. Yes I get your point, but I’m a realist. Things expire, things can’t store as long. It’s not feasible to have a farmer be the entire, or even a majority of, the food supply chain. You’ve clearly never grown anything at scale.

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> few months ago This was 2 years and a few months ago, at least the article is. > wouldn't pay them and store this food In the article the plant pictured be

by tekknik 4y ago

ClumsyPilot 4y ago
You can make eggplant flour, canned, salted and pickled vegetables, like this is something our ancestors worked out hundreds of years ago. Anyway you dont need to preserve everything, the point is the bigger picture. Thats exactly the point of my critique that for the individual farmer it doesn't make sence to invest so much effort, but as a society wouldn't it be nice of we didn't waste what we had, we'd have something to fall back on.
- tekknik 4y ago
  > You can make eggplant flour, canned, salted and pickled vegetables. Farmers grow food, they don’t process it outside what a combine does. This further increases costs as now you need mass grinders, canners, and pickling machines. > Thats exactly the point of my critique that for the individual farmer it doesn't make sence to invest so much effort, but as a society wouldn't it be nice of we didn't waste what we had, we'd have something to fall back on. Yes I get your point, but I’m a realist. Things expire, things can’t store as long. It’s not feasible to have a farmer be the entire, or even a majority of, the food supply chain. You’ve clearly never grown anything at scale.